At The Doorway

This is another test photo that I took when I got my new lens.
I’m happy with the result here due to how the space draws attention to the doorway. There’s also a sense of enclosed / openness to me.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s Monochrome Madness for this week. This one is hosted by Dawn of The Day After, and she has chosen the theme “Shadows and Silhouettes”.

Participating is pretty straightforward and something I recommend. If you do, then include the tag “monochrome-madness” in your post. If not participating, then at the least check out Leanne’s photography as well as what other people submit.

I hope you enjoy.

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Figure Atop a Corner

This photo was taken for the below-mentioned photo challenge.
I took a photo of some stairs that I walk near most days yesterday, as they’re genuinely interesting stairs. However, it wasn’t a good photo. It felt quite lacking and so I decided to retake a photo of the stairs this morning, which I did.

I also took a photo of this sculpture because I also found it interesting.

This is my submission into the three hundred-and-tenth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Zigzag“.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Tina

Patti

Ann-Christine aka Leya

John Steiner

Sofia Alves

Anne Sandler

Egídio

Ritva

Patti is curating this one. The next one is hosted by Leya.

I recommend participating in the challenges as they provide a fun way to interpret theme. If not participating, then at least you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Over Water

I was going to share another photo but I’m going to retake it tomorrow morning, so here’s a photo of a pelican. I’m not sure if it had taken to the air properly at this point, but it didn’t go far.

Just a bit of an odd photo.

I hope you enjoy.

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Pycnoporus coccineus

Also known as orange bracket fungus.
I took this whilst taking a short walk a few weeks ago. I Just tried to capture the fungus from this angle and I think I did okay.

I hope you enjoy.

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Falls Down

Here’s a photo of a waterfall I took a few weeks ago.
I think this could be a little sharper, but I do like how this turned out.
The framing is probably not the best, but it works for what I was trying to capture here.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1393: Why am I Writing This?

So I was gonna start writing a little earlier. Then I procrastinated and now I’m writing now.

Funny how that happens.

The sun is out and the sky is dulled, but there is sunlight coming through. I can see that and it’s oddly nice, if that makes sense.

What am I writing? I don’t know why I’m writing this. I want to go on an adventure of words and it’s just not happening. I think today is gonna be a slow and dulled one, but it’s also going to be incredibly busy and all sorts of packed and crammed with things and I just need to get to the end of it in one piece.

It’s going to be a long day and it stretches out a good long while, and that’s the way it is but it’s not bad. I’ll probably blink and miss it, and then spend too much time wondering where the time went, but it’ll be okay. There are worse things out there and this is fine. Having the day fly on by is not the worst thing in the world, but sometimes it can feel like time has been wasted.

Sometimes; not all the time.

I do have to wonder, however, if the time is wasted or if it’s just not used in the way I hoped it would have been used. It’s probably the latter in a good few cases where there is some sort of productivity, but I don’t know. Who knows?

Well, I guess I would know if I thought about this enough and I probably have, but right now it is not something I want to entertain. I’d rather use the time I have to be productive in a way that I feel is conducive to an effective use of my time. How do I go about that? I don’t know, but I imagine it doesn’t involve writing in the manner that I am currently writing. I imagine it involves doing things and getting things done and following that particular order of things in order to get things done and do things that I find are fulfilling.

Sometimes you have to put all of that aside, however. Sometimes you just can’t do the things you want to do, and that sucks. In a sense, I wouldn’t mind doing the things that I want to do as a job. I already do, now that I think about it, but I don’t get paid to do them, so… I guess what I’m actually saying is that it’d be nice to get some money from what I like to do so I wouldn’t have to spend as much time as I do being tired. That’d be nice, but these things take time (if they ever happen at all), but I’d also be making better use of my time, or maybe I wouldn’t. I don’t know and I don’t want to try and work it out right now.

Maybe I’ll try again later on today.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:05:58

Another one written at work and not done anything with until now.
I think this could’ve been something really good but it didn’t happen. Alas.

Written at work.

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Jutting Out of the Face

Here are some balconies I’ve been past quite a few times in my time thus far. I imagine I’ll pass by them again at some stage in the near future.

This is my submission into the three hundred-and-ninth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Balconies“.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Tina

Patti

Ann-Christine aka Leya

John Steiner

Sofia Alves

Anne Sandler

Egídio

Ritva

PR of Flights of the Soul is guest-curating this one. The next one is hosted by Patti.

I recommend participating in the challenges as they provide a fun way to interpret theme. If not participating, then at least you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Grabbing the Mic

Taken at a gig a while back. I thought the moment would make for an interesting photo and I think it does, but it didn’t fit with the gallery overall so I put it aside and, well, here it is.

I think the photo provides an idea of what was happening, but only an idea. I like that the hand and arm doesn’t give away the person’s bodily proximity to the microphone. They could be facing away; they could be quite close.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week.

Participating is pretty straightforward and something I recommend. If you do, then include the tag “monochrome-madness” in your post. If not participating, then at the least check out Leanne’s photography as well as what other people submit.

I hope you enjoy.

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Susan Campbell

This was a test photo I recently took to test a lens I recently acquired. Like the result, so here it is.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1392: To be Alive

My head is hammering away as I deal with feeling ill. It’s an incredibly fun time, let me tell you. Have I felt worse? Yes. This still is pretty not fun, however.

So I’m here, I’m sick (or rather, I feel sick as I’m dealing with the consequences of my actions), and I’m just powering on at a sluggish rate and trying to get through the day to the best of my ability. Only a few more hours to go. Once I’m done, I’m done. I can collapse and flop and take it easy… once I get home, and who knows when that will be.

Probably within an hour of finishing work, but anyway.

Oh, to be alive and suffer such malediction! I do not deserve this and all that hoopla.

I’m just glad I’m not actually ill, because if I were I would not be able to work.

So there are times where you need to take a bit of a hit in order to get better. When I say “hit”, I don’t mean violence; I’m referring to a temporary bit of unpleasantness, for a given degree of unpleasantness. You keep going where you can. You keep powering on, and hopefully you get to the end of it all in one piece. You never know, but usually you come out better.

That’s what I’ve done here, and it sucks, but I’ll survive. I’ll get through this odious feeling. I’ll get to the end of it all in one piece. I’ll step into then tunnel and come out on the other end mostly unscathed.

I’ll also probably sleep really well tonight. Or maybe I won’t. The world is yet to see.

So what else is there? I’m going through various feelings and sensations, and it’s passing and I’ll be mostly left with fatigue at the end of it, and then I’ll head home and that wil be that. Life will continue. I will get through the day and then tomorrow will be yet another day. That’s how it all works and I’m in that cycle, and it’s not one I mind too much. Could be worse. I keep getting better and less tired at the end of each week, and I keep going and soon I might not even feel the fatigue of the job. Don’t know if that is indeed the case, but I hope it is the case. I hope that I keep getting healthier from doing the work that I’m currently doing.

Just gotta keep eating healthy and keep powering on and stay on top of everything. Need to keep on keeping on and shake off this sense of illness sooner rather than later, especially as I’ll be doing some gig work this Friday. Need to be fit enough for that. Need to make sure I sleep enough for that. Need to make sure I and so on and so forth for that.

But until then, I am here and feeling run down, and it’s not great.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:36:55

Wrote this at work, getting to it now. A long day.
This is one of those struggle writings, and I think it shows a lot.

Written at work.

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